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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Constant Gardner, and many more. One of his stories, "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn," was published in >em>The Saturday Evening Post in 1967. John le Carré Articles

Stephen Buranyi: Big Pharma is fooling us Success with coronavirus vaccine doesn’t mean industry deserves your affection. (Shira Inbar | The New York Times) Big Pharma is fooling us By Stephen Buranyi | For The New York Times   | Dec. 21, 2020, 1:00 p.m. It’s about as near as science gets to a miracle: A coronavirus vaccine has arrived — and the main reason is that mRNA vaccines, a previously untested technology, appears to work better than almost anyone had hoped. As recently as this ...

(Photo illustration: Dado Ruvic/Reuters) If you feel like you haven’t been exposed to enough stupidity today and would like to remedy that, the “Big pharma is fooling us,” reads the New York Times headline. “Heroic work went into the development of the coronavirus vaccines. But that doesn’t mean this industry deserves your affection.” The essay is by Stephen Buranyi, and it contains some absolute gems: The turpitude of the pharmaceutical industry is so commonplace that it has beco...

Mr. Buranyi is a science journalist in London and a visiting lecturer at the European Business School. Dec. 17, 2020 It’s about as near as science gets to a miracle: A coronavirus vaccine has arrived — and the main reason is that mRNA vaccines, a previously untested technology, appears to work better than almost anyone had hoped. As recently as this summer, many analysts were pushing their predictions for a vaccine into the fall of 2021, in line with the timeline of traditional treatments. ...

Follow RT on By  Tom Secker, a British-based investigative journalist, author and podcaster. You can follow his work via his Spy Culture site and his podcast ClandesTime. The recently departed writer occupied a strange space in the spectrum of spy authors. He was simultaneously one of British intelligence’s most respected and beloved representatives while also seen as one of its foremost critics. The demise of one of the world’s most famous spy authors leaves us with many unreso...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard In the world of espionage fiction, few names stand out quite like John le Carres, and today that world is in mourning, as it has been announced that the legendary author has passed away. The news has been confirmed by his family, who have informed the press that he died of pneumonia on Saturday night at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. The author of books such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Constant Gardner was 89, having celebrated his last birthday this past ...

Le Carre’s people He elevated the espionage novel to literature. His protagonists were all too human, and bore cost of ideologically-driven battles. Updated: December 15, 2020 8:47:13 am The sanctity of due process lies in not just hearing the accused in court but in also being fair and appearing to be fair in the justice process. In 2011, when John Le Carre (born David Cornwell), who died on Monday at 89, was nominated for the Booker Prize, it took just ...

John le Carrés Literary Legacy, Visualized By PW Staff | Dec 14, 2020 In 2016 PW took a deep dive into the nearly 60-year literary career of David John Moore Cornwell, who wrote under the alias of John le Carré, and offered a data visualization of some highlights from his long literary career. Le Carré died December 12 at age 89. Cornwell turned his brief stint working behind the scenes at Britains MI6, the U.K.s intelligence service and produced several dozen boo...